 /*******************************************************************************
  * Copyright (c) 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *
  * Contributors:
  * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.core.runtime;

 /**
  * This interface describes a registry contributor - an entity that supplies information
  * to the extension registry.
  * <p>
  * Registry contributor objects can be obtained by calling {@link IExtensionPoint#getContributor()},
  * {@link IExtension#getContributor()}, and {@link IConfigurationElement#getContributor()}.
  * Alternatively, a contributor factory appropriate for the registry in use can be called to directly
  * obtain an IContributor object.
  * </p><p>
  * This interface can be used without OSGi running.
  * </p><p>
  * This interface is not intended to be implemented or extended by clients.
  * </p>
  * @see org.eclipse.core.runtime.ContributorFactoryOSGi
  * @see org.eclipse.core.runtime.ContributorFactorySimple
  *
  * @since org.eclipse.equinox.registry 3.2
  */
 public interface IContributor {

     /**
      * Provides name of the contributor (e.g., "org.eclipse.core.runtime").
      *
      * @return name of the registry contributor
      */
     public String getName();
 }

